proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.
Assign a unique proc inode to each namespace, and use that
inode number to ensure we only allocate at most one proc
inode for every namespace in proc.
A single proc inode per namespace allows userspace to test
to see if two processes are in the same namespace.
This has been a long requested feature and only blocked because
a naive implementation would put the id in a global space and
would ultimately require having a namespace for the names of
namespaces, making migration and certain virtualization tricks
impossible.
We still don't have per superblock inode numbers for proc, which
appears necessary for application unaware checkpoint/restart and
migrations (if the application is using namespace file descriptors)
but that is now allowd by the design if it becomes important.
I have preallocated the ipc and uts initial proc inode numbers so
their structures can be statically initialized.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
index bf1d000..2e24018 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@
*/
enum {
- PROC_ROOT_INO = 1,
+ PROC_ROOT_INO = 1,
+ PROC_IPC_INIT_INO = 0xEFFFFFFFU,
+ PROC_UTS_INIT_INO = 0xEFFFFFFEU,
+ PROC_USER_INIT_INO = 0xEFFFFFFDU,
+ PROC_PID_INIT_INO = 0xEFFFFFFCU,
};
/*
@@ -263,6 +267,7 @@
void *(*get)(struct task_struct *task);
void (*put)(void *ns);
int (*install)(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *ns);
+ unsigned int (*inum)(void *ns);
};
extern const struct proc_ns_operations netns_operations;
extern const struct proc_ns_operations utsns_operations;